Ravived

 ( Dalit ) 

Ravived is a caste that is mainly found among Hindus in Mauritius. The origin of this caste lay in an Indian caste named Chamarhttp://mujournal.mewaruniversity.org/JIR%203-4/JIR3-4.pdf This same caste is referred to as Ravidassia outside Mauritius, and this terminology is very seldom used in Mauritius.

In the ship records on which Indian laborers migrated to Mauritius, around ten percent of the boarded people mentioned their caste as Chamar. After the establishment of caste hierarchies in Mauritius, the Chamar community families turned to the religious songs of Kabir and Ravidass for their own religious outlet. Slowly, they started adopting religious-sounding names from these devotional songs.

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Arya Ravived Pracharni Sabha During the initial stage of migration in Mauritius, significant numbers of Chamar people joined the Arya Samaj in the hope that it would help them to be free from the curse of casteism, as it was claimed by the leaders of the Arya Samaj.

(2016). 9781351986830, Routledge. . ISBN 9781351986830

But later, Upper Caste Arya Samajis started building separate halls for themselves and chamars for prayer within the same shrine to avoid Arya Samaj being labelled as a Chamar religion, which led to the establishment of Arya Ravived Pracharini Sabha in 1935.

(2025). 9780195391640, Oxford University Press, USA. . ISBN 9780195391640

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See also

• Chamar
• Jatav
• Guru Ravidas
• Ravidassia
• Ramdasia

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